How is it typically done in the Cisco IOS - for a certain public ip for port
587 to be redirected to the same certain ip but port 25?
Thanks,


Sunday, January 23, 2005, 12:38:04 PM, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
M> Unless you have a reason why you would want to use another piece of
M> software for validating addresses (very necessary these days), you are
M> probably going to want something that is software and does port 
M> forwarding, but not another MTA of some sort.  I don't know of any port
M> forwarding software that isn't some form of a firewall or proxy.  Maybe
M> someone else knows better about what is available.

M> I believe that you could get away with a really cheap standard Linksys
M> router if you weren't looking to spend a lot of cash, the config would
M> be somewhat of a kludge to have work properly, but I'm pretty sure it
M> can be done..  Lots of routers do port forwarding, so you don't 
M> necessarily need a Cisco to pull this off if you wanted a more 
M> straightforward solution.  IMO, every Internet server should be behind a
M> port blocking router, otherwise you may very well end up hacked through
M> some open port exploit, so a router has many advantages besides this one
M> thing.

M> Matt




M> Gary Brumm wrote:

>> SBC just blocked port 25 for their dynamically assigned DSL users.  I
>> can have those users switch to SBC's SMTP servers but I have
>> been meaning to open up port 587 for my users that travel.  I was 
>> wondering what software solutions you guys have been using (like the
>> ones suggested below) and if there are any problems associated with
>> doing it via software on the IMail machine as opposed to doing it with
>> a hardware firewall.  If it is a software solution it must run as a
>> service.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Gary
>>
>>
>> At 09:38 AM 8/27/2004, you wrote:
>>
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jim,
>>>> If your firewall supports it, I'd suggest port remapping on the 
>>>> firewall.
>>>> Have any port translated to IMail on port 25.
>>>> You could achieve the same solution using a port redirector software
>>>> on your IMail box.
>>>> There is a bunch of Port Forwarder/Redirector Softwares available, e.g.
>>>> PortTunnel by http://www.steelbytes.com/
>>>> or
>>>> Fpipe by 
>>>> http://www.foundstone.com/index.htm?subnav=resources/navigation.htm&subcontent=/resources/freetools.htm
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I gave FPipe a shot, and while it does work, IMail sees the 
>>> redirected traffic as coming from itself, which will defeat my 
>>> relaying setting. While that may not be a problem at the moment, some
>>> time in that not-so-distant future, some spammer may become clever
>>> enough to start relaying traffic through port 587, and I will become
>>> an open relay.
>>>
>>> Is there a redirector that does preserve the source IP, or is that
>>> even possible?
>>>
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